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Patrick O'Sullivan - (Cobh) Executed Cork Military Detention Barracks 28-4-1921

Photograph of Rev. Charles Goold, C.C Kilmichael ; who rendered last rites to I.R.A. men killed at Kilmichael Ambush 28/11/1920

Photograph of the Enthronement of Bishop Galvin - November 1927

Museum Opening

John Francis O’Connor was born on 13 Feb 1883 in County Cork into a devout Catholic family. He entered the Capuchin novitiate on 1 October 1899 and received the religious name of Dominic. In response to a call from Cardinal Michael Logue, Archbishop…

After enduring a long, slow and torturous death over the preceding 74 days, Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork, Teachta Dála for the Mid-Cork Constituency of the 1st Dáil Éireann and O/C of the Cork No. 1 Brigade of the IRA, finally achieved…

A simple-enough piece of metal symbolises the local innovation used when it came to assembling weapons a century ago in mid-Cork.
This pike-head was donated to our collection at Independence Museum Kilmurry by a former Irish Volunteers/IRA member…

Plaster Profile of an tAthair Peadar

Poblacht na h-Eireann 30-09-1922 (edited by Erskine Childers )

Postcard of round tower monument memorial to Gen. Liam Lynch